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Michael Hohn
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Posted - 07/08/2020 : 08:44:22 AM
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Thumbs up, George. Excellent work!
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George D
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Posted - 07/08/2020 : 08:46:41 AM
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Thanks, Mike. I can never figure you out. 
Thanks, Chuck. I agree this is interesting. I'm wandering into new areas (for me) that I'm having fun sorting out.
George
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BurleyJim
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Posted - 07/08/2020 : 10:42:38 AM
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George, I have to 'fess up'. My last comment praising your fine effort, never got posted. And then the forum crashed, hope this doesn't do it again. 
Jim (I didn't do it!)
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George D
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Posted - 07/08/2020 : 11:09:34 AM
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Thanks, Jim. I hope the forum stays up for a while.
George
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George D
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Posted - 07/13/2020 : 8:46:10 PM
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I soldered leads for the frogs, so I could check for problems by running a four wheel loco through all the turnouts. I spent some time moving jumper wires around and running and re-running the loco through each switch. I found a couple needed touched up with a file and now I'm happy with the reliability.
I took the track outside and cleaned the flux off with acetone and a wire brush. The brush is an aggressive tool, and popped one of the points off the throw rod. That's not bad – I found a durability problem early on. I'm trying to make the trackwork bullet proof.

Here's closeup of the clean track.

George
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BurleyJim
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Posted - 07/13/2020 : 10:24:56 PM
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Nice frogs!
Jim
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George D
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 08:23:04 AM
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Thanks, Jim. 
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Rick
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 08:42:40 AM
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Nice work George. I'm sure you'll make bulletproof.
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TRAINS1941
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 08:50:01 AM
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Beautiful track work.
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Dutchman
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 09:01:45 AM
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George, testing as you go sure heads off problems down the road when it would harder to tweak the issues. Your track work looks great.
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Carl B
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 09:23:50 AM
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Handlaid track and turnouts are the best! And you're doing a fine job George...
Silly question: What are the evenly spaced "holes" in your base? Or is it just a work table?
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George D
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 10:53:16 AM
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Thanks for the nice comments, guys.
Carl, those are random holes I drill in the work base to hold wooden tabs. The tabs hold everything in place when I'm soldering.

George
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Carl B
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 12:11:52 PM
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Thanks George, well, that explains that 
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Bernd
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 1:21:07 PM
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quote: Originally posted by George D
Thanks for the nice comments, guys.
Carl, those are random holes I drill in the work base to hold wooden tabs. The tabs hold everything in place when I'm soldering.

George
HaHa! Learned something new. How to hold down the track while soldering. Neat, plus I won't burn my fingers holding the track in place.
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George D
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Posted - 07/14/2020 : 2:43:06 PM
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Bernd, I've used the technique for making the brass frame for a chain link fence.

Here's a long fence I made on the club layout.

George
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